Sunday, March 29, 2009

Motherboard Basics “The Remix”

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It’s been awhile since the last Tech Tip on motherboards, hence some readers have requested a refresh (as it were) on the topic of motherboards. In this Tech Tip, we’ll be looking at different aspects of that all important main circuit board in your computer known as the motherboard. Whether you are just looking for more information on motherboards in general, or perhaps looking into purchasing one, it is always better to get to know some things about the current generation of motherboards.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Building Your Slides Online

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve been giving quite a few presentations. While some of those presentations have been solo efforts, I’ve done most of them with my business partner. And that’s when a few wrinkles have crept into our grand plans.

How? Well, an important (or at least useful) component of a presentation is a slide deck. Before plugging in a digital projector, you need to create your slides. It’s easy enough to pass a PowerPoint, Keynote, or OpenOffice.org Impress file around. But it’s just as easy to lose track of which file is the latest version. Or just lose the file.

Fortunately, some Web entrepreneurs have made strides in eliminating this problem by developing Web-based tools for creating slides. The four that this TechTip highlights have a number of things in common:

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Video Format Guide

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Video may have killed the radio star, but it’s become more than just something that we watch on our televisions. Video is definitely an essential part of the desktop and Web experiences of most computer users. And more than just a few mobile phone users, to boot.

But like anything in the realm of computer technology, the video we watch is wrapped up in a morass of jargon and of weird extensions. If you don’t know your .avi from your .mov or .flv, then read on. 

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Grinding the (Google) Gears

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Cloud computing. It’s a phrase that’s been on the lips of many computer users over the last year or so. Imagine being able to work or to access your files from anywhere there’s an Internet connection. And you don’t have to be at your own desktop computer or laptop computer, either.

The main problem with cloud computing, though, is that you’re not always online. You might be on an airplane or train without an Internet connection. You might be in a spot where a connection is spotty at best. So, what do you do?
Turn to Google Gears, that’s what. 

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